Author(s): Dr. Sukhdev Singh

Abstract:
The present study was designed to determine the comparative analysis of progressive muscular relaxation training and yog nidra training effect on anxiety of athletes. The study was conducted on thirty ( N= 30 ) university level players of individual sports and team sports (judo, track and field, handball, cycling, baseball, softball, badminton, korfball, basketball and archery) were recruited as subjects from the different colleges of Punjabi University Patiala. All subjects were given an informed consent letter to sign to be a subject for the present study with their own will. The researcher was ask the player to fill the sports competition anxiety test (SCAT) questionnaire and after conducting the test the investigator will only select thirty high and low level anxiety players. After that the researcher were divide the subject in two different groups. These two different groups were be exposing to selected psychological relaxation techniques. To effect mean, standard deviation and paired t–test were employed. The level of signifance choose in to test the hypotheses was 0.05, P < 0.05. Results of the study explicated statistically that there was significant difference in Progressive Muscles Relaxation. However, insignificant difference was found in Yog Nidra of athletes.

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